Chapter 9 The Half-Cane
"So bright!" "What is that?!" "Is there a fire somewhere?" "How is that possible? A fire wouldn't be this bright! And we don't have such tall buildings in Cangnan City!" "Quick, take a picture! Post it on social media!" "..."
The towering column of light was too dazzling, catching the attention of half of Cangnan City's residents.
Pedestrians stopped in their tracks, excitedly speculating about its appearance.
Some said it was an explosion, others said it was an optical experiment, and some said it was a divine miracle...
But only a few knew what the appearance of this column of light truly meant.
Two minutes ago, in the old city area.
On the deserted streets, ripples of space gently swayed, as if someone had lifted a corner of the canvas that covered the old city area, and then five figures in black and red cloaks emerged.
One of them looked around, took a step forward, picked up the "No Entry" sign on the ground, and closed it.
In the moment the sign was put away, the silent old city area seemed to silently shatter like a bubble, revealing the true interior of the old city area.
The eerie sight of blood staining the old streets red, with scattered grotesque limbs strewn about, would have been recognized by Lin Qiye as the ghostly monsters he faced!
Countless, at least thirty-four! "[No Remorse Zone] retrieval complete," the person holding the sign said lightly, "We can call the logistics team to clean up the battlefield."
"What about Lao Zhao?" "He went to chase the two escaping ghost-faced people."
"...We were negligent."
The injured woman held her right shoulder, looking somewhat dejected.
"Don't say that, Hongying, no one knew there was a Ghost-Faced King among these ghost-faced people," the man beside her comforted.
"The captain should be fine facing the Ghost-Faced King alone, right?" "Of course, don't forget the captain is a strongman of the Three Realms 'Chuan' Realm, nothing will happen to him."
The man paused, "Just hope...
those two escaping ghost-faced people won't cause harm to ordinary people..."
As his words fell, a blazing column of light shot up from another direction, illuminating half of the sky! The five turned their heads simultaneously, their eyes filled with shock! "That is..."
"A Forbidden Area has appeared, this energy fluctuation...
is incredibly strong!" "This, this is at least a strongman of the Five Realms 'Infinite' Realm, no, it might even be of the Six Realms 'Klein'...
How could such a strong person be attracted to the small city of Cangnan?" "No, this doesn't seem like a human Forbidden Area," the man frowned.
Hongying was stunned, then seemed to realize something, "Are you saying..."
"This seems like a divine Forbidden Area, that is...
a Divine Realm."
At the mention of the divine, the gazes of the few people all sharpened.
"Which deity?" "Burning, sacred, powerful, and with the aura of creation, if I'm not mistaken, this should be..."
The man stared fixedly at the gradually dissipating column of light, speaking slowly, "Divine Code 003, the Archangel, Michael."
Lin Qiye felt very uncomfortable.
In the center of this golden column of light, his body had completely lost control, eerily suspended in mid-air, endless energy gushing from his eyes.
Lin Qiye felt as if he had returned to ten years ago, across the boundless universe, seeing those eyes once again.
That supremely divine aura, he still remembered it vividly.
The difference was, ten years ago, that aura came from the moon, and now it emanated from...
his own eyes.
The aura of the Archangel and the divine power were madly pouring out from his eyes, which were like two burning suns, as if they could melt everything into nothingness.
Ten years ago, the Archangel Michael locked eyes with him from the moon.
Ten years later, Lin Qiye opened his eyes, and the residual power of the archangel in his eyes completely erupted! Fortunately, the residual power of the archangel in Lin Qiye's eyes was not much.
After the pillar of light continued for seven or eight seconds, it gradually dissipated, and Lin Qiye's body fell from mid-air, staggering to stabilize his figure.
In his eyes, the dazzling golden light gradually dimmed, leaving only a faint golden halo in the end.
If the previous brightness was equivalent to the sun, the current brightness was only like a candle.
Although the previously erupted golden light was extremely powerful, it did not belong to him after all.
The golden halo hidden in Lin Qiye's eyes now was truly under his control.
A faint, residual power of the archangel.
Lin Qiye took a deep breath and slowly raised his head.
The pitch-black night sky, the old streets, the terrifying monsters, the blood-stained ground...
When this far from beautiful scene unfolded before Lin Qiye's eyes, he smiled.
He smiled happily.
After ten years, he finally saw the world again with his own eyes.
At this moment, in Lin Qiye's eyes, the monster covered in blood actually seemed somewhat cute.
When the archangel's power erupted from Lin Qiye, these two monsters were firmly pressed to the ground by the power, almost flattened into meat patties.
It wasn't until the golden light pillar disappeared that they regained their senses, looked around in confusion, and then continued to stare at Lin Qiye.
Bloodthirsty desire reappeared in their eyes.
"Roar!" One of the monsters roared and pounced towards Lin Qiye! Compared to before, Lin Qiye was noticeably calmer now.
In the instant the monster made a move, he had already judged its trajectory in his mind and pounced towards the side with force.
Lin Qiye's speed was indeed slow compared to the monster, but his reaction speed was astonishingly fast.
The few seconds he predicted in advance could already buy him time to dodge.
It wasn't that he could predict the future, but after opening his eyes, his perception abilities had undergone a tremendous change.
One was the range of mental perception, expanding from ten meters to twenty meters.
It took Lin Qiye five years to sense ten meters before, but now it had doubled directly.
The other was dynamic vision.
Within this twenty-meter range, Lin Qiye had nearly three times the dynamic vision of an ordinary person.
His reflexes were extraordinary, almost reaching the level of predicting the unpredictable in close combat.
As for the other abilities these eyes brought him, Lin Qiye had not yet felt them.
But the current situation did not allow him to explore slowly.
The monster shot past the spot where Lin Qiye had just stood like an arrow, crashing into a large piece of wall, then pushed off the wall debris with its limbs and flew towards Lin Qiye again!
By this time, Lin Qiye had already rolled away to avoid the monster's landing point, reached out beside him, and grabbed the half of a cane that had fallen to the ground earlier!
Lin Qiye quickly got up, crouched down, stared firmly at the rapidly approaching monster, and tightly gripped the cane!
The monster dragged a trail of afterimages, stirring up the wild wind that blew Lin Qiye's black hair in front of his forehead.
It suddenly exerted force with its hind legs, and its whole body leaped into the air! This time, Lin Qiye did not dodge.
He clenched the half of the cane tightly, his eyes fixed on the monster's eyes.
"Roar!" The monster's sharp claws reached out directly towards Lin Qiye's neck.
At the moment it was about to touch Lin Qiye, his eyes suddenly contracted!
The faint golden halo in his eyes, like adding firewood to a fire, suddenly brightened, like two blazing furnaces! A strand of divine power, through Lin Qiye's eyes as a medium, forcefully poured into the monster's body.
At that moment, in the monster's eyes, Lin Qiye changed, turning into a supreme deity with six wings and emitting a terrifying aura all over his body! So, under this divine power, its body fell into a brief stiffness.
In this brief moment, Lin Qiye raised the half of the cane in his hand high...
Accurately stabbed into the monster's right eye!